The Korea Times
WONJU, Gangwon Province — Standing at the summit of a museum he likens to a “modern monastery,” artist Lee Bae returned to his roots as a Korean farmer’s son and a restless traveler in a new solo exhibition at Museum SAN that meditates on disaster, renewal and the active work of waiting. Titled “En attendant,” the exhibition runs from Tuesday to Dec. 6 and transforms the entire museum into a single journey that threads through indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture fields, echoing the institution’s founding trinity of “Space, Art, Nature.” It is the first time the museum has devoted its full grounds to a solo show of Korean artist’s works, surveying more than three decades of Lee’s painting, sculpture, installation and video, centered on charcoal as his signature medium. For Lee, who left his hometown of Cheongdo, North Gyeongsang Province, for Paris in 1989 and has lived “like a wanderer for 40 years,” the project became a journey back to his origins. “Preparing this exhibition, I kept asking myself, ‘Who am I, in what environment did I grow up and what di
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